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Dr. Tim Frandy, assistant professor of folklore, recently co-organized a public and applied folklore conference entitled "Folklore and the Wisconsin Idea." It featured the many ways folklorists collaborate with community partners across the US.

Folk Studies Prof. Tim Evans was recently interviewed by Kevin Willis of WKYU radio about his article on “the Bowling Green Massacre,” published in the Fall 2018 issue of the Journal of American Folklore.

WKU Folk Studies has just returned from another successful and productive Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society! Faculty, current students, and alumni presented papers, served on forums, and participated in leadership and section meetings.

The Editors of the Journal of American Folklore (JAF), currently based in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University (WKU), are pleased to announce a forthcoming issue on the topic of "fake news."

Sam Cole, an archival researcher for the documentary film hillbilly, visited Dr. Ann Ferrell’s Women’s Folklife class on September 18 prior to a screening of the film at the Capitol Arts Center that evening. The film premiered in May of this year.

Dr. Tim Frandy helped to coordinate a Wild Ricing camp on the Lac du Flambeau reservation in northern Wisconsin for NACHP students, staff, and their families to learn about indigenous food ways and the Anishinaabe tradition of wild rice harvesting.

The Kentucky Museum exhibit "A Culture Carried: Bosnians in Bowling Green" and the Bowling Green Bosnia Oral History Project were recently featured in Humanities for All, a National Humanities Alliance site showcasing publicly engaged humanities work.